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Journal of General Internal Medicine - COVID-19 research collection

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This is an archived collection. Any articles published after September 1st, 2020 can be found here (this opens in a new tab).

To help keep our readers up-to-date on research and analysis related to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have created this collection of articles and other resources published in Journal of General Internal Medicine.

How Influenza Vaccination Rate Variation Could Inform Pandemic-Era Vaccination Efforts (this opens in a new tab)
Brandon W. Yan, Frank A. Sloan, and R. Adams Dudley
Concise Research Report 
 |   Published: 28 August 2020

Associations Between Primary Care Provider Shortage Areas and County-Level COVID-19 Infection and Mortality Rates in the USA (this opens in a new tab)
Benson S. Ku and Benjamin G. Druss
Concise Research Report  |   Published: 21 August 2020

Characterization of Patients Who Return to Hospital Following Discharge from Hospitalization for COVID-19 (this opens in a new tab)
Sulaiman S. Somani, Felix Richter, Valentin Fuster, Jessica K. De Freitas, Nidhi Naik, and Keith Sigel
Original Research  |   Published: 19 August 2020

Association of COVID-19-Related Hospital Use and Overall COVID-19 Mortality in the USA (this opens in a new tab)
Pinar Karaca-Mandic, Soumya Sen, Archelle Georgiou, Yi Zhu, Anirban Basu
Concise Research Report  |   Published: 19 August 2020

Health Policy Perspective: Medicaid and State Politics Beyond COVID (this opens in a new tab)
Jane M. Zhu, David Grande, David K. Jones, Renuka Tipirneni
Perspective  |   Published: 19 August 2020

Medical Students in the Time of COVID-19 (this opens in a new tab)
Aldis H. Petriceks
Healing Arts 
 |   Published: 19 August 2020

Lobbying Expenditures of the Health Sector During the COVID-19 Pandemic (this opens in a new tab)
Adam Olson, John Barrick, William B. Tayler, Shivaram Rajgopal, Ge Bai
Concise Research Report  |   Published: 12 August 2020

Mobility and Mortality During the COVID-19 Pandemic (this opens in a new tab)
Jonathan S. Zipursky, Donald A. Redelmeier
Concise Research Report  |   Published: 10 August 2020

Searching for Human Connectedness During COVID-19 (this opens in a new tab)
Margaret McNairy, Brooke Bullington, Kimberly Bloom-Feshbach
Perspective
  |   Published: 10 August 2020

Association Between County-Level Racial and Ethnic Characteristics and COVID-19 Cases and Deaths in the USA (this opens in a new tab)
Christopher A. Scannell, Carlos Irwin A. Oronce, Yusuke Tsugawa
Concise Research Report  |   Published: 05 August 2020

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Population-Level Covid-19 Mortality (this opens in a new tab)
Cary P. Gross, Utibe R. Essien, Saamir Pasha, Jacob R. Gross, Shi-yi Wang, Marcella Nunez-Smith
Concise Research Report  |   Published: 04 August 2020

Masks Do More Than Protect Others During COVID-19: Reducing the Inoculum of SARS-CoV-2 to Protect the Wearer (this opens in a new tab)
Monica Gandhi, Chris Beyrer, Eric Goosby
Perspective
  |   Published: 31 July 2020

Patients’ Perceptions About Medical Record Privacy and Security: Implications for Withholding of Information During the COVID-19 Pandemic (this opens in a new tab)
Matthew J. DePuccio, Gennaro Di Tosto, Daniel M. Walker, Ann Scheck McAlearney
Concise Research Report
  |   Published: 31 July 2020

The Things They Carry: Veterans and the COVID-19 Pandemic (this opens in a new tab)
Megan R. Gerber
Healing Arts  |   Published: 28 July 2020

Primary Care Population Management for COVID-19 Patients (this opens in a new tab)
Deborah Blazey-Martin, Elizabeth Barnhart, Joseph Gillis, and Gabriela Andujar Vazquez
Innovations in Clinical Practice | 27 July 2020

A Model for Rapid Transition to Virtual Care, VA Connecticut Primary Care Response to COVID-19 (this opens in a new tab)
Juliette F. Spelman, Rebecca Brienza, Robert F. Walsh, Paul Drost, Amy R. Schwartz, Jeffrey D. Kravetz, Patricia Pitkin, and Christopher Ruser
Innovations in Clinical Practice | 23 July 2020

Health Equity During COVID-19 (this opens in a new tab)
Rahul Vanjani, Sarah Martino, and Caroline Wunsch
Viewpoint | 23 July 2020

When Is It Safe to See the Doctor? (this opens in a new tab)
Dianne L. Goede, Melanie G. Hagen, Senthil Meenrajan, and Margaret C. Lo
Viewpoint | 23 July 2020

Planning for the Post-COVID Syndrome: How Payers Can Mitigate Long-Term Complications of the Pandemic (this opens in a new tab)
David H. Jiang and Rozalina G. McCoy
Perspective | 22 July 2020

Hospitalizations for Emergent Medical, Surgical, and Obstetric Conditions in Boston During the COVID-19 Pandemic (this opens in a new tab)
Timothy S. Anderson, Jennifer P. Stevens, Adlin Pinheiro, Stephanie Li, and Shoshana J. Herzig
Concise Research Report | 22 July 2020

COVID-19 and Rhabdomyolysis (this opens in a new tab)
Nicholas R. Chedid, Swalpa Udit, Zhabiz Solhjou, Maria Y. Patanwala, Alice M. Sheridan, and Ebrahim Barkoudah
Clinical Vignette | 15 July 2020

Nursing Homes, the Pandemic, and Caring Enough (this opens in a new tab)
Jerry H. Gurwitz and Alice Bonner
Viewpoint  |   14 July 2020

Older Adults with COVID-19 Can Choose Care at Home: Lessons Learned from New York City (this opens in a new tab)
Justina L. Groeger, Joanna L. Starrels, and Amy R. Ehrlich
Viewpoint  |   14 July 2020

High Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 Infection Among the Uninsured Hispanic/Latino Population: a Retrospective Cohort Study (this opens in a new tab)
Chien-Hsiang Weng, Andrew Saal, and Philip A. Chan
Concise Research Report  |   14 July 2020

Letter to the Editor in Response to: COVID-19: Magnifying the Effect of Health Disparities (this opens in a new tab)
Mariela Martinez, Michael Silver, and Ariel Schulman
Letter to the Editor |   14 July 2020

The Invisible Epidemic: Neglected Chronic Disease Management During COVID-19 (this opens in a new tab)
Adam Wright, Alejandra Salazar, Maria Mirica, Lynn A. Volk, and Gordon D. Schiff
Concise Research Report  |   14 July 2020

Harnessing the Power of Hospitalists in Operational Disaster Planning: COVID-19 (this opens in a new tab)
Kasey Bowden, Ellen L. Burnham, Angela Keniston, Dimitriy Levin, Julia Limes, Jason Persoff, Lindsay Thurman, Marisha Burden
Perspective  |   13 July 2020

Building Telemedicine Capacity for Trainees During the Novel Coronavirus Outbreak: a Case Study and Lessons Learned (this opens in a new tab)
Katharine Lawrence, Kathleen Hanley, Jennifer Adams, Daniel J Sartori, Richard Greene, Sondra Zabar
Original Research  |   8 July 2020

The Landscape of Medical Literature in the Era of COVID-19: Original Research Versus Opinion Pieces (this opens in a new tab)
Akram Y. Elgendy, Amr F. Barakat, Joseph Ibrahim, Laith Alkukhun, Mamas A. Mamas, Islam Y. Elgendy
Concise Research Report  |   8 July 2020

Tracking Mental Health and Symptom Mentions on Twitter During COVID-19 (this opens in a new tab)
Sharath Chandra Guntuku, Garrick Sherman, Daniel C. Stokes, Anish K. Agarwal, Emily Seltzer, Raina M. Merchant, Lyle H. Ungar
Concise Research Report  |   8 July 2020

Medical Isolation and Solitary Confinement: Balancing Health and Humanity in US Jails and Prisons During COVID-19 (this opens in a new tab)
David H. Cloud, Cyrus Ahalt, Dallas Augustine, David Sears, Brie Williams
Perspective  |   8 July 2020

Hey Doctor! Did You Wash Your Smartphone? (this opens in a new tab)
Craig S. Brown, Ben E. Biesterveld, Seth A. Waits
Viewpoint  |   1 July 2020

Risk Factors for Mortality in Patients with COVID-19 in New York City (this opens in a new tab)
Takahisa Mikami, Hirotaka Miyashita, Takayuki Yamada, Matthew Harrington, Daniel Steinberg, Andrew Dunn, Evan Siau
Original Research  |   30 June 2020

Trying Times and Trying Out Solutions: Intimate Partner Violence Screening and Support for Women Veterans During COVID-19 (this opens in a new tab)
Fernanda S. Rossi, Megha Shankar, Kelly Buckholdt, Yuki Bailey, Sonoo Thadaney Israni, Katherine M. Iverson
Perspective  |   30 June 2020

Prioritizing Equity in a Time of Scarcity: The COVID-19 Pandemic (this opens in a new tab)
Utibe R. Essien, Nwamaka D. Eneanya, Deidra C. Crews
Viewpoint  |   30 June 2020

Hospital Cost Structure and the Implications on Cost Management During COVID-19 (this opens in a new tab)
Ge Bai, Hossein Zare
Concise Research Report  |   30 June 2020

COVID-19 Is Infecting Our Clinical Acumen (this opens in a new tab)
A. Jain, L. Chisick
Viewpoint  |   30 June 2020

PPE Supply Chain Needs Data Transparency and Stress Testing (this opens in a new tab)
Tinglong Dai, Ge Bai, Gerard F. Anderson
Viewpoint  |   30 June 2020

COVID-19: Why Declining Biodiversity Puts Us at Greater Risk for Emerging Infectious Diseases, and What We Can Do (this opens in a new tab)
Aditya K. Khetan
Editorial Notes  |   30 June 2020

The Income-Based Mortality Gradient Among US Health Care Workers: Cohort Study (this opens in a new tab)
Sasmira Matta, Paula Chatterjee, Atheendar S. Venkataramani
Concise Research Report  |   30 June 2020

Association Between State-Level Income Inequality and COVID-19 Cases and Mortality in the USA (this opens in a new tab)
Carlos Irwin A. Oronce, Christopher A. Scannell, Ichiro Kawachi, Yusuke Tsugawa
Concise Research Report  |   24 June 2020

Should Asymptomatic and Low-Risk Individuals be Tested for SARS-CoV-2? (this opens in a new tab)
Ashwini R. Sehgal
Concise Research Report  |   24 June 2020

Risk for Severe COVID-19 Illness Among Health Care Workers Who Work Directly with Patients (this opens in a new tab)
Diane M. Gibson, Jessica Greene
Concise Research Report  |   24 June 2020

Charlson Comorbidity Index Score and Risk of Severe Outcome and Death in Danish COVID-19 Patients (this opens in a new tab)
Daniel Mølager Christensen, Jarl Emanuel Strange, Gunnar Gislason, Christian Torp-Pedersen, Thomas Gerds, Emil Fosbøl, Matthew Phelps
Concise Research Report  |   24 June 2020

County-Level Association of Social Vulnerability with COVID-19 Cases and Deaths in the USA (this opens in a new tab)
Rohan Khazanchi, Evan R. Beiter, Suhas Gondi, Adam L. Beckman, Alyssa Bilinski, Ishani Ganguli
Concise Research Report  |   23 June 2020

Antithrombotic Therapies in COVID-19 Disease: a Systematic Review (this opens in a new tab)
Edward Maldonado, Derrick Tao, Katherine Mackey
Review  |   17 June 2020

Depression and Anxiety Changes Among Sexual and Gender Minority People Coinciding with Onset of COVID-19 Pandemic (this opens in a new tab)
Annesa Flentje, Juno Obedin-Maliver, Micah E. Lubensky, Zubin Dastur, Torsten Neilands, Mitchell R. Lunn
Concise Research Report  |   17 June 2020

Initial Experience with a COVID-19 Web-Based Patient Self-assessment Tool (this opens in a new tab)
William M. Mehring, Andrew Poksay, Jesse Kriege, Rithvik Prasannappa, Michael D. Wang, Chris Hendel, Michael Hochman
Concise Research Report  |   15 June 2020

Association Between US Administration Endorsement of Hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19 and Outpatient Prescribing (this opens in a new tab)
James J. Harrigan, Rebecca A. Hubbard, Sunil Thomas, Ralph J. Riello, Erin Bange, Mira Mamtani, Ronac Mamtani
Concise Research Report  |   15 June 2020

Releasing Migrants from Detention During the Covid-19 Pandemic (this opens in a new tab)
Katherine C. McKenzie, Ranit Mishori
Viewpoint  |   15 June 2020

Late Diagnosis of COVID-19 in Patients Admitted to the Hospital (this opens in a new tab)
Elizabeth R. Pfoh, Essa H. Hariri, Anita D. Misra-Hebert, Abhishek Deshpande, Lara Jehi, Michael B. Rothberg
Concise Research Report  |   15 June 2020

Psychological Aspects of the COVID-19 Pandemic (this opens in a new tab)
Carlos Blanco, Melanie M. Wall, Mark Olfson
Viewpoint  |   15 June 2020

COVID-19 and Asian American Pacific Islanders (this opens in a new tab)
Jiun-Ruey Hu, Margaret Wang, Francis Lu
Viewpoint  |   12 June 2020

18.2 Million Individuals at Increased Risk of Severe COVID-19 Illness Are Un- or Underinsured (this opens in a new tab)
Adam W. Gaffney, Laura Hawks, David H. Bor, Steffie Woolhandler, David U. Himmelstein, Danny McCormick
Concise Research Report  |   10 June 2020

Physician Supply During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Crisis: the Role of Hazard Pay (this opens in a new tab)
Gregory W. Ruhnke
Viewpoint  |   10 June 2020

Self-Reported Loss of Smell and Taste in SARS-CoV-2 Patients: Primary Care Data to Guide Future Early Detection Strategies (this opens in a new tab)
Benoit Tudrej, Paul Sebo, Julie Lourdaux, Clara Cuzin, Martin Floquet, Dagmar M. Haller, Hubert Maisonneuve
Concise Research Report  |   9 June 2020

Preparing Primary Care for COVID-20 (this opens in a new tab)
Mohammed K. Ali, Deep J. Shah, Carlos del Rio
Viewpoint  |   9 June 2020

Independent Correlates of Hospitalization in 2040 Patients with COVID-19 at a Large Hospital System in Michigan, United States (this opens in a new tab)
Zaid Imam, Fadi Odish, Justin Armstrong, Heba Elassar, Jonathan Dokter, Emily Langnas, Alexandra Halalau
Concise Research Report  |   9 June 2020

Characterizing the Role of the “Triagist”: Reasons for Triage Discordance and Impact on Disposition (this opens in a new tab)
Ashley Amick, Maralyssa Bann
Concise Research Report  |   9 June 2020

Virtual Visits and the Future of No-Shows (this opens in a new tab)
Nathaniel P. Morris
Viewpoint  |   8 June 2020

Inpatient Management of COVID-19 Pneumonia: a Practical Approach from the Hospitalist Perspective (this opens in a new tab)
Todd S. Cutler, Nell Eisenberg, Arthur T. Evans
Review  |   4 June 2020

Telemedicine and COVID-19: an Observational Study of Rapid Scale Up in a US Academic Medical System (this opens in a new tab)
Carol J. Peden, Sirisha Mohan, Veronica Pagán
Concise Research Report  |   4 June 2020

Lessons from Influenza Outbreaks for Potential Impact of COVID-19 Outbreak on Hospitalizations, Ventilator Use, and Mortality Among Homeless Persons in New York State (this opens in a new tab)
Atsushi Miyawaki, Kohei Hasegawa, Yusuke Tsugawa
Concise Research Report  |   4 June 2020

Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies Among Healthcare Workers at a Tertiary Academic Hospital in New York City (this opens in a new tab)
Mayce Mansour, Emily Leven, Kimberly Muellers, Kimberly Stone, Damodara Rao Mendu, Ania Wajnberg
Concise Research Report  |   3 June 2020

Interpreting COVID-19 Test Results: a Bayesian Approach (this opens in a new tab)
Chester B. Good, Inmaculada Hernandez, Kenneth Smith
Concise Research Report  |   3 June 2020

An Evaluation of the Vulnerable Physician Workforce in the USA During the Coronavirus Disease-19 Pandemic (this opens in a new tab)
Rohan Khera, Lovedeep Singh Dhingra, Snigdha Jain, Harlan M. Krumholz
Concise Research Report  |   3 June 2020

Covid-19: an Imperative to Bridge the Gap Between Medicine And Public Health (this opens in a new tab)
Alvin I. Mushlin
Viewpoint  |   3 June 2020

Preparing Telemedicine for the Frontlines of Healthcare Equity (this opens in a new tab)
Lala Tanmoy Das, Christopher J. Gonzalez
Viewpoint  |   3 June 2020

Americans’ COVID-19 Stress, Coping, and Adherence to CDC Guidelines (this opens in a new tab)
Crystal L. Park, Beth S. Russell, Michael Fendrich, Lucy Finkelstein-Fox, Morica Hutchison, Jessica Becker
Original Research  |   29 May 2020

Online Crowdfunding Response to Coronavirus Disease 2019 (this opens in a new tab)
Pawel Rajwa, Philip Hopen, Lin Mu, Andrzej Paradysz, Jakub Wojnarowicz, Cary P. Gross, Michael S. Leapman
Concise Research Report  |   27 May 2020

Health Disparities and the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic in the USA (this opens in a new tab)
Sameed Ahmed M. Khatana, Peter W. Groeneveld
Viewpoint  |   27 May 2020

Trends in Ambulatory Electronic Consultations During the COVID-19 Pandemic (this opens in a new tab)
Neelam A. Phadke, Marcela G. del Carmen, Susan A. Goldstein, Jacqueline Vagle, Michael K. Hidrue, Eirian Siegal Botti, Jason H. Wasfy
Concise Research Report  |   18 May 2020

PPE Portraits—a Way to Humanize Personal Protective Equipment (this opens in a new tab)
Cati Brown-Johnson, Stacie Vilendrer, Mary Beth Heffernan, Shira Winter, Thanh Khong, Jennifer Reidy, Steven M. Asch
Innovations in Clinical Practice  |   17 May 2020

The Parallel Pandemic: Medical Misinformation and COVID-19 (this opens in a new tab)
Jennifer S. Love, Adam Blumenberg, Zane Horowitz
Viewpoint  |   14 May 2020

COVID-19 and Health Disparities: the Reality of “the Great Equalizer” (this opens in a new tab)
Stephen A Mein
Viewpoint  |   14 May 2020

Pandemic Loss (this opens in a new tab)
Jeffrey D. Kravetz
Viewpoint  |   14 May 2020

Public Priorities and Concerns Regarding COVID-19 in an Online Discussion Forum: Longitudinal Topic Modeling (this opens in a new tab)
Daniel C Stokes, Anietie Andy, Sharath Chandra Guntuku, Lyle H Ungar, Raina M Merchant
Concise Research Report  |   12 May 2020

COVID-19: Magnifying the Effect of Health Disparities (this opens in a new tab)
Eun Ji Kim, Lyndonna Marrast, Joseph Conigliaro
Viewpoint  |   11 May 2020

Stop Doing Needless Things! Saving Healthcare Resources During COVID-19 and Beyond (this opens in a new tab)
Matthew A. Warner
Perspective  |  7 May 2020

Primary Care Providers: Discuss COVID-19-Related Goals of Care with Your Vulnerable Patients Now (this opens in a new tab)
Eric Kutscher, Mat Kladney
Viewpoint  |   6 May 2020

Virtual House Calls: Telemedicine and Reforming the Health Care Delivery Model with Strategies Implemented in a Novel Coronavirus Pandemic (this opens in a new tab)
Noah Kojima, Jeffrey D Klausner
Concise Research Report  |   4 May 2020

From the Editor’s Desk: JGIM and COVID-19 (this opens in a new tab)
Carol K. Bates, Jeff Jackson, Steven Asch
Editorial  |   22 April 2020

A Case Series of Recurrent Viral RNA Positivity in Recovered COVID-19 Chinese Patients (this opens in a new tab)
Kenneth I. Zheng, Xiao-Bo Wang, Xiang-Hong Jin, Wen-Yue Liu, Feng Gao, Yong-Ping Chen, Ming-Hua Zheng
Case Study  |   20 April 2020

We Can’t Just Wash Our Hands: a Primary Care Physician’s Thoughts on COVID-19 and Her Community (this opens in a new tab)
Kelsey B. Bryant
Healing Arts  |   20 April 2020

How Community and Unity Can Help Americans Survive (this opens in a new tab)
Robert H. Brook, C. Jason Wang, Neil S. Wenger
Viewpoint  |   20 April 2020

Review of the Clinical Characteristics of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) (this opens in a new tab)
Fang Jiang, Liehua Deng, Liangqing Zhang, Yin Cai, Chi Wai Cheung, Zhengyuan Xia
Review  |   4 March 2020

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